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Dr. Holmes is Director of the University of Washington Center for AIDS and STD; Co-Director of the UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research and Co-PI for the UW International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH), the UW’s largest externally funded Center, for HIV/AIDS- and STI-related clinical and laboratory training for tens of thousands of international health care workers per year, and for global HIV program implementation, strengthening, and evaluation. His research interest are in the HIV programs which include molecular virology, immunology, clinical trials, vaccine development, vaccine evaluation, and international HIV prevention research; STD programs include separate projects involving genital HPV infection, genital herpes, HTLV infections, vaginal infections, pelvic inflammatory diseases, chlamydial and gonococcal infection, the immunobiology of syphilis, and STD prevention research in the US and in developing countries.